By Hilary Sanfey Over the last few years I helped care for a very dear friend, a retired surgeon, who developed a progressive neurological illness shortly after turning sixty. It was challenging, n...
By Heather Logghe This Father’s Day I would like to give special thanks to the dads who lovingly support their women surgeon partners. My husband, Chris, has been one of them. I embarked on my...
By Marie Crandall “I’ll just answer this one text…”, “One sec, let me look for my hands-free…” “Damn this train, I’ve got a sick patient waiting in the ER…” It seems like I...
By Miriam D. Weisberg The United States Preventative Services Task Force and American Cancer Society advocate the importance of Papanicolaou tests (Pap test) as effective screening for cervical can...
By Chris Hardesty The worst moment in 2015 was the morning my 2 year old started crying when he realized I was leaving for work. I’d heard this would happen and expected it, but the pit in my s...
By Jane Zhao Join us for a tweetchat tonight, Sunday evening, March 13, at 8 PM Eastern Time and follow @WomenSurgeons, @jzhao3, @ShreeAgrawal21, @minervies and the #AWSFood4Thought! ...
By Linda Farkas October is the “pink” month. Pink is everywhere for breast cancer. Major cities light up pink fountains, pink skyscrapers, and even “real men” (football players) wear pink f...
Tweet chat (follow @WomenSurgeons) and additional blog post to come on March 13th 8 PM EST! By Shree Agrawal Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, as Dr. Abraham Varghese promi...
By Sharon Stein Cardiovascular disease...Not me- I am too young for that. I was shocked when I got the text from my husband. A friend and colleague had just had a stroke. She was in the Neur...
By Lillian Erdahl As part of the discussion on work and life, I want to introduce a term I heard recently. A speaker at a conference I attended mentioned the concept of work-life integration rather...